re|crim|i|nate

re|crim|i|nate
re|crim|i|nate «rih KRIHM uh nayt», intransitive verb, transitive verb, -nat|ed, -nat|ing.
to accuse (someone) in return: »

He said she had lied, and she recriminated by saying he had lied too. To criminate and recriminate never yet was the road to reconciliation in difference among men (Edmund Burke).

SYNONYM(S): countercharge.
[< Medieval Latin recriminare (with English -ate1) < Latin re- again + crīminārī accuse < crīmen, -inis a charge]

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